"So we'll go. I'll set something up with Joel, probably in a few weeks when their baby is like, old enough to actually be taken out of the house. Sound good?"
He lowers his eyes when she mentions Raleigh again, leaning his weight back on one palm as he tosses his half-eaten slice of pizza back in the box, his appetite briefly lost. "Problem is, I don't know what kind of protection she really needs. And the last time I talked to her, it didn't really end well." It'd ended with them screaming at each other to fuck off, which Coop can't really recall happening with any of his closest friends, and it still makes him cringe to remember it.
Admittedly, he could have told her sooner that they might be better off not going on the date she'd asked him on after all but after so many weeks then months had passed, it'd seemed to have fallen off both their radars. He'd had no idea she'd been harboring such negative feelings toward him this whole time.
"I mean, it obviously won't stop me from trying to help. I can think of a bunch of people off the top of my head who'd want to help set her right if she really does have some magical whammy on her, I just... I don't know. The things she said weren't like her but they still felt like they came from a real place. It was like when people turn into pissy drunks and just say whatever comes to mind."
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He lowers his eyes when she mentions Raleigh again, leaning his weight back on one palm as he tosses his half-eaten slice of pizza back in the box, his appetite briefly lost. "Problem is, I don't know what kind of protection she really needs. And the last time I talked to her, it didn't really end well." It'd ended with them screaming at each other to fuck off, which Coop can't really recall happening with any of his closest friends, and it still makes him cringe to remember it.
Admittedly, he could have told her sooner that they might be better off not going on the date she'd asked him on after all but after so many weeks then months had passed, it'd seemed to have fallen off both their radars. He'd had no idea she'd been harboring such negative feelings toward him this whole time.
"I mean, it obviously won't stop me from trying to help. I can think of a bunch of people off the top of my head who'd want to help set her right if she really does have some magical whammy on her, I just... I don't know. The things she said weren't like her but they still felt like they came from a real place. It was like when people turn into pissy drunks and just say whatever comes to mind."